VLC 2.0 has been released. "With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 is a major upgrade for VLC. Twoflower has a new rendering pipeline for video, with higher quality subtitles, and new video filters to enhance your videos. It supports many new devices and BluRay Discs (experimental). Completely reworked Mac and Web interfaces and improvements in the other interfaces make VLC easier than ever to use. Twoflower fixes several hundreds of bugs, in more than 7000 commits from 160 volunteers."

lemme think: I already have wireless mouse, I only need to start/pause playback. Why should I waste money when I already can do that in almost every other video player? To answer your subsequent question - so why I'm /trolling/ about vlc? because it is great software and i would love that it's even better.

The better question would be "Why does he NEED to buy a remote for such basic functionality?" because lets be honest folks, he's not asking for some incredibly complex uberrare function here, just a simple 'click the movie and the movie stops" which frankly ever other MP I've seen does.

I know that when I'm working on multiple PCs (which is quite often) its a heck of a lot easier to just click the mouse instead of reaching over for the keyboard. this is a problem I've noticed with a lot of freeware, some developer decides he don't like feature X or would rather be working for new thing Y and simply ignores basic usability.